2018-02-17T21:11:22.000000000+00:00
Newcomer Simone Rocha and veteran Jasper Conran are among the designers showcasing their latest autumn and winter styles at London Fashion Week, as British luxury fashion powerhouse Burberry prepared to round out a busy Day 2 with its show later Saturday.

2018-02-17T20:21:00.000000000+00:00
The U.S. stock market on Friday posted one of its best weekly performances in years, recapturing half of the losses from the startling market correction earlier this month and discovering a new "wall of worry" to climb.

2018-02-17T19:28:06.000000000+00:00
Latvia's state broadcaster says the national anti-corruption agency has raided the office and a property of the head of the country's central bank, Ilmars Rimsevics.

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Market Overview

CNNMoney

2018-02-16T14:05:35.000000000-05:00
Wall Street is already handing out verdicts on who will win and lose if President Trump follows Commerce Secretary recommendations to impose heavy tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

2018-02-16T05:52:21.000000000-05:00
Nirav Modi, a diamond dealer who has designed jewelry for Dakota Johnson and Kate Winslet, was named as a suspect in a $1.8 billion fraud at India's Punjab National Bank.

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The Wall Street Journal

2018-02-17T23:43:31.000000000-05:00
Eight days into the Winter Olympics the U.S. is fifth in the medal count with nine over all—tied, along with Austria and Japan, with the Olympic Athletes from Russia, a team stripped of its flag and devoid of many of its stars due to doping sanctions.

2018-02-17T07:56:33.000000000-05:00
Retailers rang up their strongest holiday sales since 2011, but now they have to figure out what to do with an estimated $90 billion in returned apparel, electronics and sporting goods.

2018-02-17T04:12:11.000000000-05:00
American skier Lindsey Vonn skidded wide on a turn in the lower half of the Super G and finished sixth in her first race in these Olympics on Saturday. Czech Republic’s Ester Ledecka won gold.

2018-02-16T19:20:08.000000000-05:00
The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&amp;P 500 edged higher to extend their rebound as stocks showed firm signs of regaining their footing after tumbling earlier this month.

2018-02-16T12:19:58.000000000-05:00
The teenager who killed 17 people at a Florida high school had alarmed authorities, neighbors and classmates, with many recounting such behavior as obsessing over weapons and shooting small animals with a pellet gun.

2018-02-16T10:40:00.000000000-05:00
State officials across the country are increasingly worried that a provision in the new tax law extending college savings accounts to K-12 expenses will blow an unexpected hole in their budgets.

2018-02-17T13:44:44.000000000-05:00
WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - Takata Corp's U.S. unit received court approval for its bankruptcy exit plan, a plaintiffs' law firm said on Saturday, clearing the way for a $1.6 billion sale of Takata assets and providing compensation for those injured by the company's deadly air bags.

2018-02-17T12:08:39.000000000-05:00
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Some potential buyers of Tesla's long-delayed Model 3 sedan are concerned that they will miss out on big federal tax breaks and are looking for alternatives, including General Motors Co's Chevrolet Bolt, according to postings by would-be Tesla buyers on websites and int...

2018-02-17T11:59:13.000000000-05:00
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian banks could take a hit of more than $3 billion from loans and corporate guarantees provided to diamond companies at the center of a massive alleged fraud at the state-run Punjab National Bank, the tax department has estimated.

2018-02-17T11:25:39.000000000-05:00
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian banks could take a hit of more than $3 billion from loans and corporate guarantees provided to diamond companies at the center of a massive alleged fraud at the state-run Punjab National Bank, the tax department has estimated.

2018-02-16T19:26:55.000000000-05:00
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stock markets are unlikely to return to the unusually calm conditions seen last year, even though equities have already recovered more than half the ground lost in the recent selloff and traders have rapidly dialed down fear.

2018-02-16T19:22:33.000000000-05:00
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. grain merchant Archer Daniels Midland Co has settled a lawsuit with Syngenta over the seed company's launch of a biotech corn strain that roiled grain exports to China, according to regulatory documents filed on Friday.

2018-02-16T19:18:50.000000000-05:00
(Reuters) - General Electric Co is exploring a sale of its industrial gas engine business that could be worth as much as $2 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

2018-02-16T19:03:12.000000000-05:00
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday moved to prevent AT&amp;T Inc from arguing that politics played a role in the government's decision to stop its merger with Time Warner Inc , a deal that President Donald Trump had publicly criticized.

2018-02-16T17:57:19.000000000-05:00
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&amp;P 500 rose marginally on Friday to mark its biggest weekly increase in five years, although earlier gains evaporated after the indictment of Russians for meddling in the 2016 presidential election sent investors into defensive mode before a long weekend.

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2018-02-16T06:38:15.000000000-05:00
Some veteran investors who were vindicated in calling for a pullback in shares and a spike in volatility could now be cheering. Actually, they're looking at the risks that still lie ahead in the...

2018-02-16T05:33:00.000000000-05:00
LONDON (Reuters) - Performance from computer-driven hedge funds run by industry stalwarts Cantab Capital Partners and Systematica Investments took a hit after market volatility in February, showed...

2018-02-15T19:02:42.000000000-05:00
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. fund investors fled the riskier corners of the debt market, pulling the second-highest amount of cash on record from high-yield "junk" bonds during the latest week, Lipper...

2018-02-15T11:53:08.000000000-05:00
LONDON (Reuters) - Shipping stocks may still be in the doldrums in the view of many investors, but hedge funds have bet at least $675 million on signs of renewed buoyancy in the industry.

2018-02-15T10:59:50.000000000-05:00
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Financial advisors and smaller retail investors, wary that inflation may be brewing again, ratcheted up their bets on funds in Morningstar's Commodities Broad Basket fund...

2018-02-14T19:08:53.000000000-05:00
NEW YORK (Reuters) - In late 2017, several well-known hedge funds made bets on companies selling goods considered non-essential by consumers and on companies processing raw materials, according to...

2018-02-14T19:02:41.000000000-05:00
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York-based Paulson &amp; Co, led by longtime gold bull John Paulson, kept its stake in gold investments during the fourth quarter of 2017, while other heavyweights including...

2018-02-14T17:15:39.000000000-05:00
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Long-dated bonds "represent a significant risk" as investors focus on signs inflation is rising, a top portfolio manager with BlackRock Inc said on Wednesday.

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The Economist

2018-02-15T15:48:22.000000000+00:00
TO ANY outsider it looks as if the children have been hypnotised by yet another smartphone game. As the spying elders in a TV ad try to break the spell, the sprogs flash a grin at their screens. “It’s maths, dad,” giggles a fifth-grader to her father. The company behind the ad, Byju’s, sells an e...

2018-02-15T15:48:22.000000000+00:00
KUMIKO HIRANO has noticed a disquieting change when she goes to her neighbourhood konbini, one of Japan’s ubiquitous convenience stores. “No one is around and I have to use a loud voice to get someone to serve me,” says the 48-year-old worker in Tokyo. “It irritates me.”
This might not seem a big...

2018-02-15T15:48:22.000000000+00:00
Hock Tan hones the art of the deal
VALENTINE’S DAY might seem like a good time to discuss a proposal. But whether it brought luck to Broadcom’s attempt to woo its rival chipmaker, Qualcomm, is still unclear. As The Economist went to press, a meeting between the boards of both firms to discuss Br...

2018-02-15T15:48:22.000000000+00:00
WHEN Disney struck a deal just before Christmas to buy much of 21st Century Fox for $66bn, it was a career-defining moment for the two firms’ bosses, Bob Iger and Rupert Murdoch. A third media mogul, Brian Roberts of Comcast, was left out in the cold. Having tried and failed last autumn to get Mr...

2018-02-15T15:48:22.000000000+00:00
TO ANY outsider it looks as if the children have been hypnotised by yet another smartphone game. As the spying elders in a TV ad try to break the spell, the sprogs flash a grin at their screens. “It’s maths, dad,” giggles a fifth-grader to her father. The company behind the ad, Byju’s, sells an e...

2018-02-15T15:48:22.000000000+00:00
Pulls a heavy weight of expectation
ELECTRIC commercial vehicles were once a common sight in Britain’s towns and cities. A fleet of 25,000 battery-powered milk floats roved the early-morning streets delivering a crucial part of the nation’s breakfast. Short ranges and low top speed were unimport...

2018-02-15T15:48:22.000000000+00:00
KUMIKO HIRANO has noticed a disquieting change when she goes to her neighbourhood konbini, one of Japan’s ubiquitous convenience stores. “No one is around and I have to use a loud voice to get someone to serve me,” says the 48-year-old worker in Tokyo. “It irritates me.”
This might not seem a big...

2018-02-15T15:48:22.000000000+00:00
Hock Tan hones the art of the deal
VALENTINE’S DAY might seem like a good time to discuss a proposal. But whether it brought luck to Broadcom’s attempt to woo its rival chipmaker, Qualcomm, is still unclear. As The Economist went to press, a meeting between the boards of both firms to discuss Br...

2018-02-15T15:48:22.000000000+00:00
WHEN Disney struck a deal just before Christmas to buy much of 21st Century Fox for $66bn, it was a career-defining moment for the two firms’ bosses, Bob Iger and Rupert Murdoch. A third media mogul, Brian Roberts of Comcast, was left out in the cold. Having tried and failed last autumn to get Mr...

2018-02-15T15:48:22.000000000+00:00
FROM quantum computing and smartphones to self-driving cars, home thermostats and delivering the internet by balloon, Google or, technically, Alphabet, the holding company that the firm established in 2015, has its fingers in many pies. But the company’s main business, which pays for all of its d...

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Business Insider

2018-02-17T20:09:00.000000000-05:00
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Startups with robo-advisor products are failing to live up to their initial promise.
As solutions proliferate and consumer adoption remains s...

2018-02-17T18:01:00.000000000-05:00
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Blockchain isn't just for bankers anymore. Most of the buzz around the distributed ledger has focused on its uses in finance, where it origina...

2018-02-17T17:39:00.000000000-05:00
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Nearly every global bank is experimenting with blockchain technology as they try to unleash the cost savings and operational efficiencies it p...

2018-02-17T17:24:00.000000000-05:00
JPMorgan in a recent note outlined how bitcoin, since it is decentralized, would hit a speed bump if there were a shock to the economy.
Since bitcoin are released at a set rate, there's no way for the system to handle a liquidity crisis during such an event, the bank said.
A key component of ...

2018-02-17T16:23:00.000000000-05:00
The world's oceans levels are rising at faster and faster rates as waters warm and ice sheets melt.
Researchers, led by University of Colorado-Boulder professor Steve Nerem, looked at satellite data dating back to 1993 to track the rise of sea levels.
Their findings, published in the journal Proc...

2018-02-17T16:08:00.000000000-05:00
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Despite having one of the largest fintech industries in the world, the US is noticeably behind other regions when it comes to one factor cruci...

2018-02-17T15:07:00.000000000-05:00
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Digital disruption is rocking the payments industry. But merchants, consumers, and the companies that help move money between them are all fee...

2018-02-17T14:06:00.000000000-05:00
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Credit card rewards have become so popular in the US that issuers capture headlines just by launching a new rewards card. And with consumers n...

2018-02-17T13:16:00.000000000-05:00
Bill Hader helped bring to life the voice of "Star Wars" favorite BB-8.
"The Force Awakens" director J.J. Abrams had Hader speak in a talk box while he used an effects app to come up with the voice BB-8 uses.
Hader did not do any BB-8 voice work on "The Last Jedi," and he doesn't know if he's ge...

2018-02-17T13:05:00.000000000-05:00
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Life insurance is a fundamentally hard product to sell, as it requires people to think about their deaths and promises no immediate rewards.
T...

2018-02-16T20:06:45.000000000-05:00
Venezuela's former oil czar Rafael Ramirez is being sued by a Houston company that alleges he was behind alleged demands for at least $10 million in bribes to sign off on deals to sell its energy assets in the country

2018-02-16T16:10:44.000000000-05:00
Stocks ended an up-and-down day mostly higher, capping a week of strong gains that wiped out more than half of the losses suffered in a series of wild swings in early February.

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2018-02-16T21:11:23.000000000+00:00
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2018-02-16T21:09:31.000000000+00:00
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2018-02-16T21:04:48.000000000+00:00
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2018-02-16T21:02:54.000000000+00:00
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2018-02-16T21:01:58.000000000+00:00
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2018-02-16T21:01:34.000000000+00:00
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2018-02-16T20:49:11.000000000+00:00
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